James Murdoch faces police probe over evidence

CLAIMS that James Murdoch knew three years ago that phone hacking at the News of the World was not confined to a single “rogue” reporter have been referred to the police.

Labour MP Tom Watson said he was contacting Scotland Yard after two former senior executives at the paper publicly contradicted James Murdoch’s evidence to the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee earlier this week.

If the allegations by former News of the World editor Colin Myler and former legal manager Tom Crone were correct, he said, Murdoch Jnr could face investigation for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.